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Population, long-run history by country

Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Malta	Türkiye	Oman	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	387	65,020	2,348	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	390	65,949	2,403	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	393	66,869	2,457	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	396	67,728	2,510	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	398	68,541	2,562	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	401	69,366	2,613	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	404	70,224	2,663	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	405	71,106	2,713	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	406	71,992	2,764	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	409	72,909	2,816	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	412	73,922	2,871	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	414	75,054	2,928	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	416	76,164	2,986	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	420	77,141	3,047	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	426	78,138	3,110	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	435	79,199	3,174	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	445	80,262	3,240	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	455	81,350	3,307	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	468	82,412	3,375	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	485	83,535	3,444	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	504	84,737	3,512	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	516	85,564	3,582	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	518	86,346	3,651	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	530	87,201	3,696	108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

All data sources

Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Türkiye

1: Scheidel, W. and Friesen, S. J., ‘The size of the economy and the distribution of income in the Roman Empire’, Journal of Roman Studies, 99 (2009), pp. 61–91
700 - 1820: Pamuk, Ş. and M. Shatzmiller (2011). “Real Wages and GDP per capita in the Medieval Islamic Middle East in Comparative Perspective, 700-1500”, paper presented at the 9th Conference of the European Historical Economics Society, Dublin, September 2-3, 2011; Milanovic, B. (2006), “An estimate of average income and inequality in Byzantium around year 1000,” Review of Income and Wealth 52 (3).
1500-1820: Pamuk, S. (2009). “Estimating GDP per capita for the Ottoman Empire in a European Comparative Framework, 1500-1820”, paper presented at the XVth World Economic History Congress, August 2009, Utrecht
182, 1870: Maddison, A. Monitoring the World Economy, 1995
1923-48: T. Bulutay, Y.S. Tezel and N. Yielderim, Turkiye Milli Geliri 1923-1948, Ankara, 1974.

No separate list is published for Malta, Oman, Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.